Page 2 - Shepard St News Today

We do know that we had large power outages probably from straightline winds and a lot o of circulation. some cyclones and possible tornadoes that hit the ground. no communities that called and said we hav been hit hard, come help us. we are still in the midst of the storm itself and we still have echos standing around the area south of norman itself that we are keeping a close eye on plus just the general storms going on. >> shepard: the governor of oklahoma. mary fallon. mentioned the first tw...

Governor fallon, one thing you have been crystal clear on throughout the tornado emeñgencies for the last couple of weeks is once the strms are on the way the last place you need to be is on the highway. >> absolutely. and that is what is driving me crazy tonight is that the storms, we gave people a lot of notice. even on the highways. as i was driving back from the moore/norman area earlier to oklahoma city, about 4:30 or 5:00 tonight we had a sign up on the highway that said dangerous storms...

Around 80 miles an hour are which will do plenty of damage and probably still some hail maybe between golf ball and tennis ball size. very big hail. but the heaviest rotation is not being picked up any longer so the tornado warnigs dropped there. that is certainly great news. >> shepard: no doubt it is. back to st. louis if we could. it sounds like there is an imminent threat there. >> yeah, and i think the storm is crossing probably right about over the river right now and getting back crossing...

And it was a dangerous situation. we saw severe structural damage. looked like some where in the union city el reno a)ea and then the same storm went through south oklahoma city and we were communicating with mike norman in the oklahoma city area to keep everybody warned in the path of the storms and right now, im trying to get to my house in norman which was two miles south of the ef5 damage path. we are driving through the ef5 damage path, what was that ten days ago and the same area had torna...

River, this is still in full force. >> it is. moving into illinois. important to say that because we have been talking for the last three hours about oklahoma but you these storms are cutting across area of missouri. southwestern o missouri. joplin now had three different tornado warnings right there. one tornado -- the same way they have been developing and cycling through in oklahoma city that is happening now in xp the joplin, missouri area. keep in mind two years guy they had the monster tor...

If you look at the interstates which go north and south directions out of the city, just a parking lot. i know you have been watching it on local television. it was heartbreaking. as the storms are crossing over the interstate hopefully up in the air, not down on the ground, we cant know. it was like a parking lot there. it was unbelievable. >> it was. i literally called the commissioner and, of course, he was saying i got so many people out right now. we got the lights and sirens and carp and d...

The language in the last year after the joplin and tuscaloosa tornadoes they went in and decided to change the wording with some storms and there are tornado warnings an" then there are tornado warnings that they will give exaggerated language to as a potentially life threatening and extremely dangerous situation. so that certain tornado warnings can have certainly people take them a little more interesting. if you live in the areas sometimes you can spend all spring dealing with tornado watches...

This is exactly what the authorities had hoped would not the happen. once the storm get theres it is too late and that is a line of cars that stretches for miles to the north and south on the freeway there as people are trying to get out of town. and frankly, they waited too long. i-44 is the north and south -- well, there are a number of north and southbound interstates. i-44 is to the west of oklahoma city. i-35 just to the east of oklahoma city and that is southbound there on i-35 and i-44 no...

>> because oklahoma city was so prepared for this. the one thing about it is i got some messages on twitter and facebook people saying well, it is perfectly sunny skies and generally you might get a 45 minute to an hour notice whether you see the storms is building. today the storms is went from nothing to an incredibly strong severe storm within about 15 minutes to the the west of oklahoma city. >> shepard: this is what we were seeing a moment ago is the trailing edge it is my understanding of ...

Get out of the path what is going on here. if they are saying the tornado threat is diminishing a little bit that doesnt mean we couldnt still see a good ef2 and maybe ef3 tornado. maybe not as wide as what we saw to the west of oklahoma city but sill a tornado that goes over a population area, a mobile home park or housing development or are business the same damage will be done. >> shepard: we are reading the latest from the oklahoma city wires. and speaking with the storm chasers as well. it ...